Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts)
Cambridge University Press, 8/23/2012
EAN 9780521895361, ISBN10: 0521895367
Hardcover, 340 pages, 22.2 x 14.3 x 2 cm
Language: English
The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of philosophy at a time of both scientific progress and political barbarism. It is also a response to Heidegger, offering Husserl's own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserl's influential notion of the 'life-world' – the pre-given, familiar environment that includes both 'nature' and 'culture' – and offers the best introduction to his phenomenology as both method and philosophy. Dermot Moran's rich and accessible introduction to the Crisis explains its intellectual and political context, its philosophical motivations and the themes that characterize it. His book will be invaluable for students and scholars of Husserl's work and of phenomenology in general.
Preface
Introduction
Husserl's life and writings
1. Husserl's Crisis
an unfinished masterpiece
2. Galileo's revolution and the origins of modern science
3. The Crisis in psychology
4. Rethinking tradition
Husserl on history
5. Husserl's problematical concept of the life-world
6. Phenomenology as transcendental philosophy
7. The ongoing influence of Husserl's Crisis.